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Index
Cover Title Page Copyright Contents List of Boxes List of Figures List of Tables Preface
Multiple editions Where is East Asia? Dating preferences Language issues Note on referencing Note on indexing Acknowledgments
Dedication Chapter 1: Orientation
Grounding
Starting from the Yellow Sea Mainland geography The loesslands The Northern Zone Westward ho! Eastward bound North–south divisions
National chronologies With or without writing?
Prehistoric archaeology Protohistoric archaeology Historic archaeology
East Asian cultural successions
The Chinese sequence The Korean sequence The Japanese sequence
Chapter 2: Archaeological Organization
Archaeology as a government endeavor
Japan Korea China
East Asian archaeology since 1990
Science and theory Multiple archaeologies Cooperative projects Conferences Journals
Chapter 3: The Earliest Inhabitants (2,000,000–40,000 years ago)
The peopling of East Asia The first peopling, or Out of Africa
What peoples? Habitats, habits and habitation Their tool kits
Intermediate peoples The second peopling, or Out of Africa 2 How far east did Pleistocene hominins go, and when?
Chapter 4: Innovations of Modern Humans (40,000–10,000 years ago)
Modern peoples and their accoutrements Upper Palaeolithic climate and chronology New lithic strategies
Significance of prepared-core technologies Blade varieties and assemblages
What were they hunting? A mobile lifestyle Harbingers of the Neolithic
Edge-ground axes Plant utilization Coastal living The invention of pottery
Chapter 5: Earlier Holocene Subsistence Patterns (10,000–5000 years ago = 8000–3000 BC)
Settling down
Earliest villages Feedback loops between food and sedentism
‘In-between’ societies Exploiting Holocene forests
The importance of nuts Timbers, houses and woodworking tools
Living on Holocene shores
Anatomy of a shellmound Fish stories
Pen/Insular species management
Jomon husbandry Chulmun husbandry
Mainland cereal growers
Northern millet cultures Southern rice culture Mainland broad-ranging subsistence
Food studies
Proportional food resources Isotope analyses
Chapter 6: The Mid-Holocene Social Mosaic (5000–2000 BC)
Introduction The Middle Jomon phenomenon
A regional exchange network Core villages
The Loesslands tradition
Yangshao villages Loesslands pottery
The East Coast tradition
Dawenkou villages East Coast ceramics
The Hongshan enigma Dimensions of social status
Gender distinctions Ritualists Social hierarchies The importance of commensality
Summary
Chapter 7: Emergence and Decline of Late Neolithic Societies (3300–1900 BC)
Introduction
Periodization Agriculture, monumental architecture and social stratification What is a state?
Urbanizing settlements
Of walls and terraces Southern powerhouse: Liangzhu site complex Intermontane Taosi Liangchengzhen, Eastern Longshan Quick comparisons
Site hierarchies Central Plain polity development
Walled settlements Sacrificial interments Settlement system
The dramatic end of the Late Neolithic The opening of the steppes
The western and central steppes From west to east Establishment of the Early Metal Province
Chapter 8: Bronze Age Beginnings (2000–850 BC)
Bronze Age time span Bronze and agro-pastoralism
Qijia and Siba cultures Zhukaigou Lower Xiajiadian
Bronze and Erlitou
The Erlitou site (1850–1550 BC) Erlitou culture and polity Significance of Erlitou bronze vessels
The Shang bronze tradition
Shang bronzes
Southern bronze cultures
Lower and Middle Yangzi Sichuan Basin: Sanxingdui
The Northern Bronze Complex In conclusion
Chapter 9: Early State Florescence (1500–770 BC)
Dynastic successions
Was Erlitou the Xia capital? Early, Middle and Late Shang Royal Zhou
Early inscriptions Shang state organization
Shang capitals The late great capital of Yinxu Territorial expansion Political organization
Royal Zhou and enfeoffments
Zhou in the Zhouyuan Early Zhou socio-political organization Yan – a royal enfeoffment
Early Zhou architectural contributions Sacrifice and warfare
Sacrifice at altar and tomb Of horses and chariots
Early state overview
Chapter 10: Eastern Zhou and Its Frontiers (1st millennium BC)
Eastern Zhou (771–221 BC)
State autonomy Warfare tactics
Zhou and ‘non-Zhou’ identity formation
From huaxia to Han Peripheral origins
Zhou border states
The eastern state of Qi The southern state of Chu Qin to the west Jin in the northwest
Commercial endeavors
Bronzes: deterioriations and advances Iron: the beginning of an industry Salt A cash economy
The Northern Zone
From Rong and Di to hu Northern signifiers: animal art and gold
Chapter 11: Pen/Insular Rice, Bronze and Iron (1300–200 BC)
Contributions from the China Mainland
Upper Xiajiadian Yueshi culture
Establishing Mumun culture
Transmission of rice farming Dolmen and cist burials Final addition of bronzes to the funerary goods
Middle Mumun (850–550 BC) settlement and society
Taepyong-ri site Komdan-ri site Songguk-ri site
Late Mumun / Early Iron Age transitions (500–200 BC)
The Slender Bronze Dagger culture Arrival of iron
From Jomon to Yayoi
Yayoi beginnings Yayoi expansion Craft advancements Jomon resistance to wet-rice agriculture
Chapter 12: The Making and Breaking of Empire (350 BC–500 AD)
Qin, the Unifier
Warring states reforms United China
The Han Dynasty
Establishment of unified rule Imperial capitals Han burial innovations
Roads as arteries to the empire
Road to the west Road to the south Continuing northern border problems Northeastern relations
Turmoil at the end of Han
Fragmentation of the empire Succeeding polities
Chapter 13: The Yellow Sea Interaction Sphere (400 BC – 300 AD)
Trade and tribute relations
Meeting the Hui and Mo Han domination
Northeastern horse-riders
Puyo in the central Manchurian Basin Early Koguryo in the eastern Manchurian massif
The Lelang commandery
Commandery sites Relations with Shandong and Liaodong Lelang tombs From Gongsun to Wei rule
The Samhan of the southern Korean Peninsula
Commandery connections Ceramic advancements Iron production From the Three Han to the Three Kingdoms
Yayoi bronze cultures
Renewed continental connections North Kyushu continental gateway
Chapter 14: Mounded Tomb Cultures (2–5c AD)
Pen/Insular state formation On the Peninsula
Koguryo and Paekche origins Kaya and Silla origins
In the Islands
From mound-burials to mounded tombs Daifang and Queen Himiko Kofun bunka: the mounded tomb culture (MTC) of Japan
Early state relations
Warfare Writing
New tombs and art
Corridor-chamber tombs Mural tombs
Expansion of Silla and Yamato
Administrative incorporation by Yamato Military conquest by Silla
Chapter 15: East Asian Civilization (3–7c AD)
Rapid transformations
On the Mainland In the Pen/Insulae
Buddhism
Buddhist grottoes Pen/Insular Buddhism Temple excavations
Law and administration: a Yamato case study Territorial control
Gridded cities Provincial systems A new field system Taxation
Technological developments Cosmopolitan lifestyles
Chapter 16: Epilogue: Ancient East Asia in the Modern World
Why study East Asian archaeology? Sharing of religious philosophies Friction dating to earlier times
The problem with Mimana Keyhole tombs in Korea Koguryo split between two states
The importance of national heritage
Appendices
Appendix A: Scientific dating Appendix B: List of abbreviations Appendix C: Language issues: pronunciation and alternative spellings Appendix D: Institutional histories 1092–2014 Appendix E: Palaeolithic finds on the China Mainland
E.1 Early Palaeolithic, Early Pleistocene E.2 Early Palaeolithic, Middle Pleistocene E.3 Fossil hominins from the Late Pleistocene
Appendix F: Succession of lithic technologies in Upper Palaeolithic Japan Appendix G: Major domestic species in East Asia
G.1 Domestication of species G.2 Domesticates from the west
Appendix H: Household and sector structure and production data from two Mainland Neolithic sites
H.1 Jiangzhai H.2 Fushanzhuang
Appendix I: Liangzhu burial data
I.1 Early Liangzhu burials I.2 Middle Liangzhu burials
Appendix J: Evidence of early metallurgical production Appendix K: Features of Northern Zone cultures in the Zhou period
K.1 Types I and II material cultures K.2 Upper Xiajiadian and the Northeast (Manchurian Basin) K.3 Northern Frontier art, divided into Early (9–4c BC) and Late (after 4c BC)
Appendix L: Analysis of burial goods in several tomb types during the Lelang period
Endnotes Sources for Illustrations and Box and Table data Bibliography
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